I am that rabbit in the moon.

I look at
place and how it affects our sense of self. Place being somewhere we travel
to as well as something we carry with us from one geographical location to
another. Place as a means of ordering reality, a way of understanding new
spaces and locations; place as an imposed notion of space, a way of
identification and organization. 

- Annalise Rees 2008.     

credit; carlo van de roer

OHAI.

Multiposts ftw.

LION

(23 juillet au 22 aout) pour le 21 février 2009

♥ Un événement des plus inattendus survient et provoque un surprenant revirement de situation! Cela signifie pour vous un renouveau important.

Hold.

À T=-292°C, PV=0. Dans PV=0, V ne peut être nul (nous n’aurions pas d’échantillon), ce doit être P qui est nulle. Si P est nul, ça veut dire que il n’y a pas de collisions de molécules sur les parois. Les molécules sont immobiles, donc il n’y a pas d’énergie cinétique.

J‘ai débalancé

De 4,76$.

Playlistlove

• James Yuill – No Surprise
• Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down
• Dararock – Fa fa fa
• Calvin Harris – The Girls
• Daft Punk – Prime time of your life
• Lady Gaga – Retro Physical
• Daft Punk – Robot Rock
• Mars Volta – Televators
• Daft Punk – Superheroes

Touchdown celebrations

Duck duck goose

I wish I could dance like this

Bowling

Collage

No Surprise

If you need me, I will run to you
And if you call me out of the blue I will run to catch you as you fall on me
And it’s no surprise that you’ll soon forget about me

If you want me, I will be right here
And if you want me you will notice me here

25 things about my sleeping habits

1. I can’t fall asleep resting on the left side of my face because of second ear piercing (although most times that’s the side I wake up on).
2. 99% of the time, I sleep with a pair of socks on.
3. I sleep with the bottom of the sheets curled under my feet, because I hate coldness of the end of the bed/breeze sobre mes pieds.
4. The open end of my pillowcase is placed on the left side. This is more out of habit than anything.
5. Every day for one year, I went to sleep listening to Fall Out Boy’s From Under the Cork Tree album.
6. Every day for six months, I went to sleep listening to My Chemical Romance’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge album.
7. Every day for six months, I went to sleep listening to Explosions in the Sky’s All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone album.
8. I sleep with one pillow, but two blankets&one duvet, even in the summer.
9. Until last year, I used to always sleep with the curtains open.
10. In the summer, I will sometimes randomly wake up at 2, 3, or 4 in the morning, sit upright, open the window, and look&listen until the sound of the city in the summer lulls me back to sleep. This’ll usually happen every twotothree days.
11. My cellphone must always be within arm’s reach when I fall asleep.
12. Sometimes I wake up in the morning with my cell open&lying under me. Wtf, sleeptexting much?
13. I always put a little vaseline on my lips before going to bed.
14. I can’t go to sleep with wet hair, but I always take a shower at night. (So I just end up waiting for an hour before creeping into bed.)
15. The only bed [other than my own] that I can fall asleep in easily is Amanda’s. …. Apart from when Beebs keeps sniffing at me, and licking my face, and being Beebs.
16. I love love LOVE being in cars in the summer before the A/C has kicked in, and the air is still thick&drowzy. Makes my head swim and sleepy and happy.
17. One of the simplest things in life that makes me happy is when I change the sheets after taking a shower, so I go to sleep surrounded by crisp, sweet-smelling freshness.
18. I don’t usually remember my dreams unless I’m interrupted&woken up by a text message.
19. Shannon used to be my alarm clock, texting me at 6 in the morning as she was in math class and using bacon as a threat if I didn’t get up&get ready for school soon. <3
20. When I was little, I used to sleep with my favorite books underneath my pillow. When I was little, I used to break a lot of book spines.
21. I have this thing where I love falling asleep in cars when they’re moving&the right music is playing.
22. I have never been able to fall asleep in class. Or in the daytime in general. It sucks.
23. Mr. Norrington = essential.
24. The walls surrounding my bed are full of things that remind me of my friends, because I sometimes like re-reading them things so that I can fall asleep happy.
25. My favorite duvet cover is my playboy ones, because the buttons at the bottom snap shut really well.  (:

Some words of wisdom from our friend, Ne-Yo‘s mother:

Don’t let the sun set on an argument.

Never wake up with yesterday’s drama on your back.

[courtesy of Mix96 Virgin Radio]

The first sentence of my first book:

and as the sun filtered through the window and heated the nape of my neck, I realized the whole thing had busted open like a split lip on a Sunday.

The Whether Woman, by SalmonHeadSoup.

July 16, 2008; 01:16

Dear mister,

Today’s weather was okay. It was kind og sunny, especially as the afternoon wore on, but we got to the beach at noon where there were more clouds than sky.

Just in case you were wondering, it was 24 degrees Celcius. I’m not sure how much that is in Fahrenheit, but I’m feeling kind of thirsty so I think I’ll go get a glass of water.

With all due respect,

Shannon’s official weather girl.

July 29, 2008; 00:03

Dear Mister,

I was reading the saddest part of a book today when it started raining. It was still pouring by the end of the chapter, but the rain looked strangely out of place when the sun came out.

I also bought a basil plant a few days ago. My friend named it Octopus. What a fruit.

With all due respect,

Shannon’s official weather girl.
[Winner of the 2028 Pulitzer Prize]

Commonplace book : July 28, 2008

Books:

• John Kirouac – On the Road
• Russel Brand – My Booky Wook
• Anne Spollen – The Shape of Water
• Samantha Schutz – I don’t want to be crazy
• (to look up) Table of Everything
• (to look up) Eckhart Tolle
• ♪ : Throwin’ Shapes – Minus the Bear
• ♪ : Flagpole Sitta – Magnificent Tracers
• @: www. thesartoralist.com
• ◘ : Shut up & Sing
• ◘ : Eureka (TV show)
• ◘ : Crazy Beautiful
• Lemony Snicket – The Notorious Notations
• John Greene – An Abundance of Katherines
• ◘ : Curb your enthusiasm
• Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt – Oscar et la dame rose/ Oscar and the Lady in Pink
• ♪ : The Go Team – The power is on
• Jean-Dominique Bauby – The diving bell and the butterfly
• ♪ : Pink Squares – I was a cub scout
• ♪ : Robots in Disguise – La nuit
• Diablo Cody – Candy Girl
• ♪ : Mates of State – Beautiful Dreamer

Further wordology from The Book Thief

- The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips. (p.374)

- Her voice was like suicide, landing with a clunk at [her] feet. (p.390)

- They [...] shivered like the future. (p.413)

- [...] so I made the usual decision to make my exit, into the breakfast-colored sun. (p.503)

Candy Floss
by Alex Day

We ran through the rain together
You said I looked nice
I said you looked pretty

You held my hand;
You pulled my close
And whispered:
‘Set me home.’

We turned around as fast as we could
And jumped on the very next train
I said: “I love you more than life.”
You said: “I feel the same.”

And we talked about nothing forever
You spoke to the walls
They told you a story

The world spun underneath our feet
As we shut out exhausted eyes
We wrote our names in a heart in the sand
And saw the sea wash it away

I said: “I want you in my life.”
She said: “Okay.”

‘Cause she was gonna go
But I said: “No, I don’t think so.”
And she looked at me
She smiled at me

And now I’ll tell you what she said:
“D’jou like candy floss?”
I said:
“Yeh. S’alright.”

She said: “Take my to a funfare, and we’ll eat candyfloss tonight.”

And we spun on the teacups
Round&Round and around until we were dizzy
You asked me to win you a bear
And said it was fine when I failed

You and me
Running through the trees
‘Til our faces were blue

I’ll always be that little boy
Sharing candy floss with you.
… And I miss you.

(Go check out the song here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GXfT0AmHR7E&fmt=18)

Basil plant

• annual plant
• can plant outside when ground is above 50 degrees
• pick leaves when young (oops)
• to encourage growth: prune main stem. leave at least one node w/ 2 shoots
• inhale basil tea to relieve cold symptoms
• crush leaves to rub on cuts, insect bites, stings
• adds luster to hair: add to rosemary rinse for brunettes, or chamomile rinse if you’re a blond
• blends well with bergamot, geranium, hyssop, neoili, marjoram, melissa, or lavendar for perfumes/toilet water
• goes well in soups, salads, eggs, fish, meat dishes

On today’s menu:

• 1 x bowl Dorset cereals
• 2 x Mr. Freeze
• 1 x ice cream sandwich
• Spinach Quiche from Presse Café
• 1 x Presse salad
• 1 x bowl salmon head soup
• 2 x bowl sliced watermelon
• 24 x cherry
• 2 x fingerdip crab meat
• 9 x Pringles Bacon Ranch

Commonplace book : July 27, 2008

Wordology from the book thief

- Everything was so desperately noisy in the dark [...] He felt like a man in a paper suit. (p.140)

- When he spoke, it was the taste of a whisper. (p.141)

- [...] and the snow was shivering outside. (p.143)

- Liesel apologized. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t be asking such things…” She let the sentence die its own death. (p.145)

- The sky was murky and deep like quicksand. [...] High above the earth, we sank together. (p.145)

- When Liesel left that day, [...] two giant words were struggled with. [...] They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud and clumsy. [...] A blank-page face. (p.146)

- Sweat was swimming out of his hands. Finger marks clutched to the book. (p.157)

- Behind Max Vandeburg, the city of Stuttgart opened its arms in mockery. He was not welcome there (p.157)

- The darkness stroked him. (p.185)

- The reply floated from his mouth, then modeled itself like a stain to the ceiling. Such was his feeling of shame. (p.200)

- Between the hand-holding shadows [...] (p.203)

- The shock made a hole in her, very neat, very precise. (p.203)

- He unleashed the quiestest words so far [...] (p.204)

- He managed to scratch his head (the rustle of kindling) (p.206)

- His voice also held on, as if possessing fingernails. He pressed it into her flesh. (p.206)

- The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously. (p.220)

- Or like a time-tabled train, arriving at a nightly platform, pulling the memories behind it on a rope. A lot of dragging. A lot of awkward bounces. (p.220)

- The secret sat in her mouth. It made itself comfortable. It crossed its legs. (p.246)

- It was a Monday, and they walked on a tightrope to the sun. (p.249)

- She merely retreated backward into the ugly air of her beautiful house. (p.253)

I've had a ravenous hunger of literature recently. Someone, please... Help me quench this thirst?

Commonplace book – July 23, 2008

Thank You For Smoking Quotes

Adam Brody : Hey! Ney Neil! I’m gonna impale your mom on a spike and feed her dead body to my dog with syphilis! [Laughs] It’s an inside joke.

Nick: Let’s say that you’re defending chocolate and I’m defending vanilla. Now, if I were to say to you, “Vanilla’s the best flavor ice cream”, you’d say…?
Joey: “No, chocolate is.”
Nick: Exactly. But you can’t win that argument. So I’ll ask you: “So you think chocolate is the end-all and be-all of ice cream, do you?
Joey: It’s the best ice cream; I wouldn’t order any other.
Nick: Oh. So it’s all chocolate for you, is it?
Joey: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick: Well, I need more than chocolate. And for that matter, I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom and choice when it comes to our ice cream, and that, Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty.
Joey: But that’s not what we’re talking about.
Nick: Ah, but that’s what I’m talking about.
Joey: But… you didn’t prove that vanilla’s the best.
Nick: I didn’t have to. I proved that you’re wrong, and if you’re wrong, I’m right.
Joey: But you still didn’t convince me.
Nick: Because I’m not after you. I’m after them. [points to the general public]

Jonathan Antin-worthy diss:
“If you were air, I wouldn’t breathe you!”

www.thedailymeme.com

“[...] he told me that I should always try to give a woman what she wants, but that I should remember that I don’t have to do it exactly the way she wants.”

- the pursuit of happiness, p.84

“I think [never having won a trophy in your life] might be the sign of a healthy individual.”

- the pursuit of happiness, p.63

Commonplace book – July 21, 2008

Baudelaire Case

Isadora and Duncan Quagmire

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer whose life was filled with misery (she led a troubled love life: her ex-husband became a psych ward patient and later attempted to commit suicide. Her two kids drowned with their nanny in a freak car accident and her third child passed away nameless an hour after birth. She was often in debt. She was dragged to death when her long scarf was caught in the wheel of a moving car.
Quagmire : noun. A difficult, precarious, or entrapping position. PREDICAMENT.

Quigley Quagmire

His name is derived from author Lillian F. Quigley who wrote a version of ‘Three Blind Men and the Elephant’. John Godfrey Saxe is an American poet best-known for his rendition of the same religious tale. Bertrand Baudelaire and Dewey Denouement were said to like reciting an American humorist poem of the 19th century by Saxe.

Duncan’s favorite book is ‘The Portable Dorothy Parker’,
Isadora’s favorite book is ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ by Charles Baudelaire.

Sunny’s baby talk

Blake! - ‘And the poem is written in Isadora’s distinct literary style!’
William Blake was an English poet.

Brummel - “In my opinion, you desperately need a bath, and your clothing is in shambles.”
Beau Brummel is credited with introducing and establishing as fashion the modern man’s suit, worn with a tie. His style of dress was known as dandyism. (Which Charles Baudelaire wrote about.)

Busheney - “You’re an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.”
Busheney = Bush + Cheney

Babganous! – “I concocted an escape plan with the eggplant that turned out to be even handier than I thought.”
Baba Ghanoush is a Middle Eastern dish with eggplant as the main ingredient.

Biscupid? – “Should I drag my teeth against the ice, too?”
Biscupid. noun. A tooth with two cusps ; a premolar tooth. (Considered a transitional tooth.)

Bildungsroman - “Since that moment, our story has been a long, dreadful education in the wicked ways of the world and the mysterious secrets hidden in all of its corners.”
Class of novel derived from Herman literature that deals with the formative years of the main character, whose psychological development is depicted. It typically ends on a positive note, with the hero’s foolish mistakes and painful disappointments behind him and a life of usefulness ahead.

Coik! - “Thinking about all this is making me dizzy!”
C.O.I.K: Acronym. Clear Only If Known.

Casca – “That’s not very reassuring.”
Casca Rufio Longinuis is a character from ‘Casca: The Eternal Mercenary’ by Barry Sadler. Casca is the soldier who drove a spear into Jesus Christ on the cross and whose blood was poisoned as a result.

Cigam – “Look at this note!”
Cigam = ‘magic’, backwards.

Ackroid! – “Roger!”
Roger Ackroyd was a character in ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie, in which the narrator turns out to be the murderer. His contention was that he always wrote the truth, just not the whole truth. There was also a lot of facts and evidence in the novel that didn’t have anything to do with the murder. From then on, readers were encouraged to ’suspect everyone‘.